Tampa, Florida Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Storm==== Originally the Pittsburgh Gladiators and a charter member of the [[Arena Football League]] (AFL), the [[Tampa Bay Storm]] relocated from [[Pittsburgh]] in [[1991 Arena Football League season|1991]] and won [[ArenaBowl V]] that year. They later won 4 more [[ArenaBowl]]s ([[ArenaBowl VII|VII]], [[ArenaBowl IX|IX]], [[ArenaBowl X|X]], and [[ArenaBowl XVII|XVII]], and also appeared in [[ArenaBowl I]], [[ArenaBowl III|III]], [[ArenaBowl XII|XII]], [[ArenaBowl XXIII|XXIII]] and [[ArenaBowl XXX|XXX]]), and their five championships were the most in league history.<ref>{{cite web |title=ArenaBowl |url=http://www.arenafootball.com/history/arenabowl.html |website=arenafootball.com |access-date=December 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102172741/http://www.arenafootball.com/history/arenabowl.html |archive-date=January 2, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The AFL suffered through several years of decreasing revenue in the 2010s, leading to fewer active franchises. There were only five teams during the [[2017 Arena Football League season|2017 season]], after which the Storm's ownership group suspended operations.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/lightning/2017/12/21/tampa-bay-storm-suspending-operations/ |title=Tampa Bay Storm suspending operations |date=December 21, 2017 |access-date=January 9, 2018 |archive-date=December 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222014736/http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/lightning/2017/12/21/tampa-bay-storm-suspending-operations/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page